How many processes per second can various operating systems support on a given hardware system?
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This page will help answer your query: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_instructions_per_second#Million_instructions_per_second If you want real-time computing, then Linux is a great way to go: http://www.osadl.org/Realtime-Linux.projects-realtime-linux.0.html If you would like more specific information, please specify the hardware, operating system and what you want to achieve.
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Most OS's will time share a single processor among many programs that are competing for its use. If all of these processes are CPU-bound, most OS's will switch between them at the rate of 100 times per second. So for CPU-bound processes, the most you could handle is 100 in a second. However, if a process does not use up all of its time slice before relinquishing the processor, the number of processes can increase. It wouldn't be unreasonable to see a computer running with 500 threads being serviced in a second. In general, then, it depends on the processes being serviced, and to a smaller degree, the efficiency of the process switching in the OS.
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